Despite being seven months' pregnant with their second child, the actress is expected to attend the hearing in London on Jan 27.

They will argue that the magazine deliberately breached their right to privacy by printing the pictures.

The dispute involves a £1 million deal they signed with OK! magazine, Hello!'s rival, for exclusive shots of their £1.2 million wedding in New York in November 2000.

Guests were told not to take cameras and were searched at the ceremony and reception. But on the Monday after the wedding, Hello! published "exclusive" wedding photographs. The official photographs did not appear in OK! until three days later.